To celebrate National Poetry Month, I want to share some of my favorite #TeachLivingPoets lessons, prompts, resources, and poems. And, as I always say, I encourage you to find your own favorites — who jives the best with your community of students and with you as an educator and reader.
Continue readingPoetry and Basketball
Reading visual texts with “The Call,” the Super Bowl halftime show trailer
Amanda Gorman: Lesson for teaching “New Day’s Lyric”
Paired Texts: Rudy Francisco and Lord Byron
This post is written by Dana Huff and originally appeared on her website, huffenglish.com. Learn more about Dana here.
Threading Poems – tying it all together
Today’s post is by guest author Valerie A. Person. A veteran teacher at Currituck County High School, Valerie teaches honors and academic English II as well as AP Literature and Composition. She agrees passionately with Virginia Woolf’s “teaching without zest is a crime,” striving to find engaging and meaningful ways for her students to learn.
Color poem: pop-up poetry to get students thinking like a poet
Teaching Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
This lesson was created by Jessica Salfia and Karla Hilliard from Spring Mills High School, Martinsburg West Virginia.
Continue readingTeaching “White Lies” by Tara Betts
This lesson was created by Brian Hannon, who is the Director of Education at LMSvoice, and teaches at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Virginia.
Continue readingPoetry mini-lesson hyperdocs galore
This post is by guest author Kristin Runyon, who shares her passion for literature and poetry in the Charleston High School Library as the librarian for her remaining few years before retirement.
Continue readingLiving Poet Final Project & Presentation
As an end-of-year project, educator Jennifer Stuckey had her students choose a living poet to showcase. Stuckey teaches English at Brookville High School in Virginia.
Project Objectives:
Continue readingTeaching Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
I am so excited to share this COMPLETE UNIT for José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal (Haymarket Books, 2018) created by my colleagues Tiffany Cavicchia and Melissa Scire.
Continue readingTeaching Rita Dove – 3 poems for all levels (upper elementary to high school)
Poetry of Identity Project Using the Living Poets Virtual Library
You want to use the Teach Living Poets Virtual Library with your students, but not sure how? Or maybe you don’t have time to devote to making a new assignment? No worries! Guest author and teacher Leigh Connole shares her incredible work here to use with the Virtual Library.
Assignment description:
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